[Rarebooks] FS: Collection of Poems by Important Early Woman Author, Aphra Behn, 1685

[Charles Agvent]

BEHN (Aphra) and others. MISCELLANY, BEING A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY 
SEVERAL HANDS. Together with Reflections on Morality, or Seneca 
Unmasqued. London: J. Hindmarsh at the Golden Ball over against the 
Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1685. First Edition. Contemporary calf 
(4-1/2" x 7"), neatly rebacked; (xiv), 299, (11), 301-382 pages. 
Complete but for the blank leaf (a4) after the table of contents, often 
lacking. A scarce collection of poetry with much by Behn and also 
including poets Thomas Brown, Thomas Creech, Henry Crispe, and John 
Wilmot. "Seneca Unmasqued, Or, Moral Reflections" is a translation of 
maxims written by the Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Behn was one of the first 
English women to earn her living by her writing, breaking cultural 
barriers and serving as a literary role model for later generations of 
women authors. She often wrote of women's sexuality, a rather radical 
concept at the time. Her poem "The Disappointment," is a comic account 
of male impotence from a woman's perspective. Virginia Woolf, in A ROOM 
OF ONE'S OWN, said of Behn: "All women together ought to let flowers 
fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather 
appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the 
right to speak their minds." WING 2230. Bookplate of Eleanor Holmes 
Hinkley (1891-1971) on the front pastedown and her small ink stamp on 
the front endpaper. Hinkley, a playwright and T. S. Eliot's cousin, 
wrote DEAR JANE, a play about Jane Austen choosing her art over a 
husband. Some worming to the bottom margin, not affecting the text, to 
about a dozen leaves. Near Fine. (#021251)        $10,000

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